Patents by Inventor Fang Zhu

Fang Zhu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230106178
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for labeling an object contour in a target image, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and an electronic device. The method for labeling an object contour in a target image includes acquiring a target image feature of a target image, inputting the target image feature into a target generator, and acquiring a target mask of the target image generated by the target generator, wherein the target mask is used for labeling a contour of the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Yan XIANG, Xiao ZHANG, Ke XU, Fang ZHU
  • Publication number: 20220351335
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a video denoising method and device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The video denoising method includes: dividing each video frame in an input video frame sequence into sub-image blocks, and calculating a block variance of each of the sub-image blocks; calculating an average variance of the sub-image blocks in a current video frame according to the calculated block variances, determining a noise level of the current video frame according to the average variance, selecting a denoise strength and a noise characteristic curve that match the noise level; and denoising the current video frame according to the denoise strength and the noise characteristic curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Jisong AI, Ke XU, Dehui KONG, Ning WANG, Xin LIU, Jing YOU, Fang ZHU
  • Publication number: 20220350669
    Abstract: A heterogeneous computing-based task processing method and a software and hardware framework system. The task processing method includes: breaking down an artificial intelligent analysis task into one stage or multiple stages of sub-tasks, and completing, by one or more analysis function unit services corresponding to the one stage or multiple stages of sub-tasks, the artificial intelligent analysis task by means of a hierarchical data flow, wherein different stages of sub-tasks have different types, one type of sub-tasks corresponds to one analysis function unit service, and each analysis function unit service uniformly schedules a plurality of heterogeneous units to execute a corresponding sub-task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Fang ZHU, Xiu LI
  • Publication number: 20220308269
    Abstract: A color filter substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel and a display device are provided. The color filter substrate includes a substrate; and a black matrix arranged on the substrate, wherein the black matrix includes a first shading strip extending along a sub-pixel length direction and a second shading strip extending along a sub-pixel width direction, and the first shading strip is made of a metal material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Feng YANG, Yezhou FANG, Qiang CHEN, Xiaojin LI, Fang ZHU
  • Publication number: 20220245761
    Abstract: The present application provides an image processing method, an image processing device, a computer storage medium and a terminal, the image processing method includes: determining convolution kernels of at least two sizes for feature extraction; performing sparsity constraint for the determined convolution kernels of at least two sizes for feature extraction through a preset objective function; and performing feature extraction on an image based on the convolution kernels subjected to the sparsity constraint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Dehui KONG, Ke XU, Xiao ZHANG, Hong WANG, Bin HAN, Ning WANG, Xin LIU, Guoning LU, Fang ZHU
  • Patent number: 11164089
    Abstract: Embodiments include predicting transactions by an entity and identifying promotions to offer the entity. Aspects include parsing a plurality of event records corresponding to a plurality of entities respectively. Aspects also include identifying a sequence of events corresponding to the entity and discretizing time durations and event values of the sequence of events into discrete symbolic values. Aspects further include generating a temporal pattern of events in the sequence of events, the temporal pattern including a sequence of transaction-symbols representative of the time duration and the event value of the events in the sequence of events of the entity and predicting a next transaction based on the temporal pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yea-Jane Chu, Sier Han, Ning Sun, Chun Hua Tian, Feng Juan Wang, Ming Xie, Chao Zhang, Xiu Fang Zhu
  • Patent number: 11157820
    Abstract: Embodiments include predicting transactions by an entity and identifying promotions to offer the entity. Aspects include parsing a plurality of event records corresponding to a plurality of entities respectively. Aspects also include identifying a sequence of events corresponding to the entity and discretizing time intervals and event values of the sequence of events into discrete symbolic values. Aspects further include generating a temporal pattern of events in the sequence of events, the temporal pattern including a sequence of transaction-symbols representative of the time interval and the event value of the events in the sequence of events of the entity and predicting a next transaction based on the temporal pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yea-Jane Chu, Sier Han, Ning Sun, Chun Hua Tian, Feng Juan Wang, Ming Xie, Chao Zhang, Xiu Fang Zhu
  • Publication number: 20200298625
    Abstract: The invention provides for a heavy truck tire tread (2) having a longitudinal direction, a lateral direction and a thickness direction, said tread having a ground-engaging contact surface (CS) and having a main longitudinal center groove (5), two main longitudinal shoulder grooves (3, 7) and two main longitudinal intermediate grooves (4, 6), said five main longitudinal grooves defining six main longitudinal ribs (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13), said five main longitudinal grooves comprising one hidden groove, two open grooves and two partially hidden grooves; wherein each of said two partially hidden grooves comprises openings (41, 61) to the ground-engaging contact surface and undersurface channels (42, 62) connecting adjacent openings, longitudinal sipes (43, 63) extending substantially along the longitudinal direction and connecting successive openings to the respective channel; and wherein said hidden groove (5) comprises an undersurface duct (52), a longitudinal sipe (53) extending substantially along the longitu
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: FANG ZHU, TERENCE WALLACE, STEFAN VOSS, VIRGILE AYGLON, CLARENCE HAIR, Jr., CHARLES MCPILLAN
  • Patent number: 10752056
    Abstract: A heavy truck tire tread is provided that has at least four longitudinal grooves, at least four longitudinal grooves comprising two open grooves and at least two partially hidden grooves. The longitudinal grooves defining two shoulder ribs, two intermediate ribs and at least one center rib, wherein the shape, size and position of the grooves are for any section of tread of any given section length L between 12 to 40 mm, the percentage difference in rubber mass of a rib section compared to a respective neighboring rib section of the same section length L in the same rib is less than a maximum percentage difference, wherein the maximum percentage difference for a shoulder rib is Ds(%)=50/L(mm), the maximum percentage difference for an intermediate rib is Di(%)=70/L(mm), and the maximum percentage difference for a full tread section is Da(%)=40/L(mm).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michellin
    Inventors: Fang Zhu, Terence Wallace
  • Publication number: 20180244111
    Abstract: The invention provides for a heavy truck tire tread (1) having a longitudinal direction, a lateral direction and a thickness direction, said tread having a ground-engaging contact surface (CS) and comprising at least four main longitudinal grooves (3, 4, 5, 6) defining at least five main longitudinal ribs (9, 10, 11, 12, 13), the at least four main longitudinal grooves comprising at least one and not more than three open grooves (3, 6) and at least two partially hidden grooves (4, 5), each of said at least two partially hidden grooves comprising openings (41, 51) to the ground-engaging contact surface (CS) and an undersurface channel (42, 52) that is connected to the openings by ducts (43, 53) extending substantially in the thickness direction, longitudinal sipes (44, 54) extending substantially along the longitudinal direction connecting successive openings to the channel, said tread comprising at least two non-shoulder main ribs (10, 11, 12), said at least two non-shoulder main ribs comprising lateral sipes
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Fang ZHU, Stefan VOSS, Victor ABAROTIN
  • Publication number: 20180231805
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a substrate, a sealing structure of a display panel, a display panel and a display apparatus, in the field of display. The substrate comprises a display area and a non-display area, wherein the non-display area is provided with a first sealing component; the first sealing component comprises a groove arranged surrounding the display area, and a width of a bottom of the groove is greater than a width of an opening of the groove. Alternatively, the substrate comprises a display area and a non-display area, wherein the non-display area is provided with a second sealing component, and the second sealing component is arranged surrounding the display area; A width of a top of the second sealing component is greater than a width of a bottom of the second sealing component, and the bottom of the second sealing component is closer to the non-display area than the top of the second sealing component is.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Feng Yang, Tinglai Lu, Weixin Meng, Qiang Chen, Fang Zhu
  • Publication number: 20180141386
    Abstract: The invention provides for a heavy truck tire tread (2) having a longitudinal direction, a lateral direction and a thickness direction, said tread having a ground-engaging surface and comprising at least four longitudinal grooves, the at least four longitudinal grooves (3, 4, 5, 6, 7) comprising two open grooves (4, 6) and at least two partially hidden grooves (3, 5, 7), the partially hidden grooves comprising open portions and duct portions alternated along the longitudinal direction of the tread, said at least four longitudinal grooves defining two shoulder ribs, two intermediate ribs and at least one center rib, wherein the shape, size and position of the grooves are such that for any section of tread of any given section length L between 12 mm and 40 mm, the percentage difference in rubber mass of a rib section compared to a respective neighboring rib section of the same section length L in the same rib is less than a maximum percentage difference, wherein •the maximum percentage difference for a shoulder
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: FANG ZHU, TERENCE WALLACE
  • Publication number: 20170193598
    Abstract: An aspect of post-lending credit management includes collecting data associated with events for a plurality of clients, serializing the data by time stamp and value to produce a client-based time series of the events, and performing feature generalization for the time series. Feature generation includes grouping the client-based time series according to a selected feature to produce feature-based time series, defining a feature-based default burst and a threshold value for the feature-based time series, identifying a point in time on the feature-based time series when the feature-based default burst reaches the threshold value, determining a cause and effect relationship between default events occurring across the plurality of feature-based time series from the feature-based default burst, and outputting feature-based default rules from the corresponding cause and effect relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Miao He, Hao Ji, Chang Rui Ren, Ning Sun, Ming Xie, Jian Xu, Wen Jun Yin, Xiu Fang Zhu
  • Publication number: 20170147675
    Abstract: Refining cluster definition: (i) receiving data items, each characterized by values respectively corresponding to a set of dimension(s); (ii) receiving initial cluster identification that divides the set of data items into multiple initial clusters; (iii) determining a distribution curve, with respect to a first dimension, of data items of a first initial cluster; (iv) determining a distribution curve, with respect to the first dimension, of data items of a second initial cluster; and (v) determining a first-dimension-first-cluster-second-cluster cut-off value such that the following two proportions are substantially equal: (a) a proportion of the area under the first distribution curve and below the first-dimension-first-cluster-second-cluster cut-off value to the total area under the first distribution curve, and (b) a proportion of the area under the second distribution curve and above the first-dimension-first-cluster-second-cluster cut-off value to the total area under the second distribution curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Sier Han, Zhiyuan Wang, Ji Hui Yang, A Peng Zhang, Xueying Zhang, Xiu Fang Zhu
  • Patent number: D784246
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin, Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Fang Zhu, Shilpa Varahagiri, Kai Chun Yang, Lee Montgomery
  • Patent number: D784247
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin, Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Fang Zhu, Praveen-Kumar Verma, Kai Chun Yang, Lee Montgomery, Jeremy Trowbridge
  • Patent number: D790444
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignees: MICHELIN RECHERCHE et TECHNIQUE S.A., COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Fang Zhu, Terence Wallace, Kai Chun Yang, Lee Montgomery, Stefan Voss
  • Patent number: D823781
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignees: Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin, Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Fang Zhu, Terence Wallace, Kai Chun Yang, Charles McPillan, Clarence Hair, Jr., Paul Crehan
  • Patent number: D930179
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN ODDX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fang Zhu
  • Patent number: D968840
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventor: Fang Zhu